Whither Europe: Greece’s center-right New Democracy party won 29.7 of the vote in parliamentary elections yesterday, claiming the 50-seat bonus for winning the most votes and positioning the party to form a coalition that would keep the country in the bailout-for-austerity agreement signed with European rescuers. Alex Tsipras’ Syriza party, which had promised to Read More
On the eve of Thanksgiving, The New York Times‘ Glenn Collins sat down with Gael Greene, New York Magazine’s dismissed "Insatiable Critic."
Mr. Collins called Ms. Greene, "The priestess of radicchio, beurre blanc and arugula," but also noted that the critic had "become an attenuating natural resource at New York since giving up Read More
In today’s New York Sun, Dan Dorfman argues that market commentators, fixated by this week’s Wall Street tumult, may be ignoring an even larger danger: market capitulation, a la 1987:
Lost in the intense focus on the current financial crisis is a major new market risk that appears to be developing — investor capitulation, Read More
Old-School Eakle Hypes a Client, With Some Help From Dan Dorfman
Richard Eakle is a busy man.
He’s the president of Eakle Associates, a Fair Haven, N.J., hedge fund advisory firm that counts George Soros among its clients, and he runs a $50 million portfolio he says is up 206 percent this year. A Read More
